. Buist's garden guide and almanac. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 28 BUIST'S GARDEN GUIDE. six to eight feet wide should surround the whole garden, and walks laid out from four to six feet â wide. Should the bottom, or subsoil, be retentive, trench the gronnd at least eighteen inches deep, as good vegetables can never be produced on sour or shallow soil. By trenching. I mean dig oat a space two spades wide and one spade deep, placing the soil take
. Buist's garden guide and almanac. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 28 BUIST'S GARDEN GUIDE. six to eight feet wide should surround the whole garden, and walks laid out from four to six feet â wide. Should the bottom, or subsoil, be retentive, trench the gronnd at least eighteen inches deep, as good vegetables can never be produced on sour or shallow soil. By trenching. I mean dig oat a space two spades wide and one spade deep, placing the soil taken out to one side ; then turn up the bottom soil, where it lies, at least the full depth of the spade, throw the top of the next trench on the first subsoil, and so on until the whole is rmished. The general method of Trenching is to turn the top side down; and the subsoil up : this is attended with evil consequen- ces, as man" years will elapse before the bad soil, which nas been turned up, can be made equal to the surface soil, which has been turned under. In spading and trenching, we, of course, refer to small gardens ; the more extensive ones should be plowed and subsoiled. The inclination of the soil of oue foot in forty, or merely sufficient to cany off the water, is all that is required : a greater slope than this would, during our heavy rains, sweep soil, manure and seeds to the lowest ground. ROTATION OF CROPS.âThere should always be a rotation of crops; that is, no two crops of a similar nature, such as Beet. Carrot and Parsnip should be grown two years in succession on the same ground; it is not only very exhausting to the soil, but the crops thus grown are less productive. To facilitate this rotation, the garden should be divided into squares of nearly uniform size; say into six or eight squares, with cross-walks of from three to four feet wide. Constant stirring of the soil, destroying all weeds, and manuring freely, is one of the secrets of the gardener's s
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